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"- By the way, Walter, you know that joke?- Irisdine spoke in a level tone, as if she hadn't noticed the enemy at all and was asking about the weather.
- Which one?
- Someone sends a question to the Berlin radio: are the BETA edible at all?
- ...And?
- They answer: of course not. Unless you're British.
Several muffled laughs could be heard in the comms. The dreadfulness of the rations distributed to the British army, stationed in the DDR under UN command, was legendary even among East German personnel, and Walter chuckled appreciatively:
- Yes, and there's so many of them here... we should export them to the islanders, they'd probably thank us.
- Right, - so first, let's turn those over there into paste."

The Muv Luv world has food processors which are factories churning out artificial protein, since foodstock cannot be grown naturally where the BETA have been. It is not stated where the source of the raw protein comes from.

In the BBQ world, there is a product called "Meat Softener". Its a chemical that, as its name implies, soft overly fibrous meat.

And about Laser class meat.

*ahem*

-"HEEEY!! Letīs taste the newsuperultratasty breakfast cereal of the champions of the futureeeeeee!!! Made with the patented Suuuuuper laser energized meat! Turn into a BETA killer to fight for the future of MANKIIIIIIND! (Echoes and bass shaking sounds)

*an scene of the kid glowing and firing laser through the eyes while screaming and cutting a Fortress class in 2*

Take yours NOOOWW!!!

Or something of the sort, I see a lot of potential in that. So, you ll have a profitable reason to go after the BETAs, and all the corpses can be scouted to being reprocessed, packed and sold in convenience stores, or in the lack of them, your closest cafeteria or lounge. All this mixed with subliminal message to encourage the people to enlist with passion, even though is obligatory, but not necessarily willing.

genius(s) like Yuuko could come up harden carbon alloy like graphene .... ( Not familiar with the alloy/armor composition of the TSF.... sure there not as Tough as of mechs like macross,energy conversion armor or Gundarium alloy composite) after all she did finished building the 00 unit .... ( well technically speaking she got EXTRA help form herself ) and other Quantum tech ( She dud use a machine to send Takeru back n forth to paralled world

I'd imagine that powering a laser would be ridiculously hard with current human tech (or require too much G-elements to be worth it) to be effectively replicated at least for the time being. That said, give Alternative world 2 or 3 decades...

I also imagine that aside from purely defensive battles like Yokohama siege or Battle of Tokyo, there aren't that many BETA left for research, much less engineering purposes. Many of those killed have been heavily mangled, and BETA believe in recycling, so they probably collect the bodies of their dead. And majority of combat operations probably consist of "cleaning" operations of bombing the crap out of BETA frontline, and then hightailing your way back to the base like the EU tends to do over the English channel.

Although...TSF technology *did* get a kick forward after Americans got through with their first studies of what was left of Athabasca. So it is possible that certain materials or compounds derived from BETA are already being used.

Again, Humanity does have an enormous amount of data and ingenuity. All they need is time.

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Let the world fear us all.
It's just means to an end.
Our salvation lies in the Father's sins.

I'll copy-paste something I originally put up in the Fanfiction thread:

Quote:

The solution to the BETA consuming Humanity is simple.
Humans must give up their humanity.

I'm actually surprised that there's no mention of crazies believing in the BETA to be the Eleder Gods of the universe, going around preaching that Humans are meant to be God's food, and likewise engage in cannibalism to be 'closer to God'...